The data presents the number of fixed line and mobile telephone subscribers per 100 inahabitans in Africa, between 1994 and 2004.
Overall, it is clear that mobile phone subscriptions increased dramatically over the period and overtook fixed-line and mobile phones per 100 inahabitans in Africa over a ten-year period , from 1994 to 2004.
In 1994,the numbers of fixed-line subscribers stabilized at 2 per 100 inahabitans. This figure climbed gradually over the next decades, reaching approximately 4 by 2004. Despite this increase , the rose was compared to that of mobile phones.
By contrast, the mobile phone subscrisers began with 0 in 1994 but experienced a shrp and consistents rise throughout the period. By 2001, it had overtaken fixed-line subscritions , and by 2004 it had stepped up to about 7 per 100 people, nearly double the figure for landlines.
